I’ve never really fit a title. And maybe that’s the point…

Scott Shirbin works at the intersection of systems change, civic imagination and governance futures.

His practice moves between strategy, storytelling, public design and organisational choreography. Helping people reorganise how they govern, collaborate and adapt, especially in moments of complexity, decentralisation or transition. Born in Australia, shaped by London, Lisbon and Mexico City, Scott navigates the space between institutions, communities, and ecosystems. He builds governance tools, civic rituals, participatory frameworks, new services, operating models and alternative infrastructures; small experiments in what might come next.

Scott is currently based in Eora (Sydney), where he is founding The Mutiny Burea; a studio for public space experiments and systems prototyping. Projects include Car-Free Sundays Sydney, The Decision Wheel, a rooftop farm governance experiment, and a series of zines exploring collapse, care, and democratic renewal.

He believes governance is less about control and more about choreography. He believes imagination is infrastructure. He believes that endings deserve as much design as beginnings.

Most of all, he trusts bikes. They’ve carried him through cities and systems. A tool of freedom, rhythm, and civic repair. Scott founded Queers on Wheels (London), and regularly organises group-rides and work in bike kitchens.

Always relational. Always unfinished. Always more-than-human.

Scott uses questions like tools, and designs like compost: slow, cyclical, full of life.

Experience Snapshot

Each role has been a laboratory. For designing systems, convening change, and learning how institutions might become more human. A one-page CV if you want to know more.